Saturday, March 8, 2014

Galactic tonight at The Fillmore Auditorium

Live Nation is pleased to present GALACTIC at The Fillmore Auditorium on Saturday, March 8.

A Special GuestTBAwill open the show.Show time is 9:00 PM.Doors open at 8:00 PM

GALACTIC
was formed eighteen years ago in New Orleans, and they cut their teeth
playing the biggest party in America: Mardi Gras, when the town shuts
down entirely to celebrate. Their most recent release, CARNIVALE
ELECTRICOS, is beyond a party record. It’s a carnival record that evokes
the electric atmosphere of a whole city – make that, whole cities –
vibrating together all on the same day, from New Orleans all down the
hemisphere to the mighty mega carnivals of Brazil. Armed with a slew of
carnival-ready guests—including Cyril and Ivan Neville, Mystikal, Mannie
Fresh, Moyseis Marques, Casa Samba, the KIPP Renaissance High School
Marching Band, and Al "Carnival Time" Johnson (who remakes his all-time
hit)—GALACTIC whisks the listener around the neighborhoods to feel the
Mardi Gras moment in all its variety of flavors.

GALACTIC
is a collaborative band with a unique format. It’s a stable quintet
that plays together with high musicianship. They’ve been together so
long they’re telepathic. GALACTIC is, always was, and always will be a
funk band. Whatever genre of music anyone in New Orleans is doing, from
Mardi Gras Indians to rock bands to hardcore rappers, it’s all funk at
the bottom, because funk is the common musical language, the lingua
franca of New Orleans music.